Tokyo and Hakone, Japan 2008

A brief comparison...

Tokyo 2002 / Tokyo 2008

The rest are 2008...

Jean fascinated by the sushis

The sushis are not fascinated by Jean

A road for humans

At a road shoulder

Also at a road shoulder. No pausing while walking or you might get walked over

At the emperor's palace. Poor emperor... Stuck inside his whole life..

A group of men/boys who performed some acrobatics for their photo-taking at the palace

The train and its commuters

Jean stunned as she walks out of a handicap toilet in the train station and gets her picture taken (no, not the security camera)

The pink sign translated: "This carriage is for women only"... during peak hours

A successful jump shot initiated by Jean (the art of pushing the credit)


The crowd at Harajuku. Ren shan ren hai, shui xie bu tong...

The Tokyo Tower at night. Dad spent some on a time on a roof top taking this shot and Jean and I were freezing. By the time he was done, mom disappeared - we found her later inside the building

Up in the clouds

Never judge an egg by it's shell

Camouflaging against the bush

Translated: Hakone pirate ship

Boarding the pirate ship

Our make-shift dinner in Hakone when all the shops outside were closed

Inside our room in Hakone. Lake Ashi in the background

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji again...

A view of sulfur mining from the cable car. A great time to note that sulfur is yellow-green in colour

A night view of our final hotel in Tokyo

The fake volcano in DisneySEA with a roller coaster inside

DisneySEA.. The buildings in the background have flat surfaces. The old fashioned protruding-like structures are painted on

DisneySEA.. A christmas tree and the Tower of Terror (the plunge all the way down one...)

A picture taken during the Tower of Terror ride. Actually, taken from the TV screen of the thing for people to go purchase their photos (a great way to save money..). Spot me (no prizes for guessing)

Indiana Jones structure. The ride inside is not that shocking for old folks, but maybe of some advantage to them because they try to scare the visitors with very loud sounds while riding through the room

The highly disputed plant on the road side in DisneySEA because of it's authenticity. It is smooth and has a rubber like texture, quite hard, but it's surrounding plants are real (I think..). It's still not certain whether this is a plant or just a heap of plastic.

After the 360 degree roller coaster ride

On the chidrens' ride. No, I don't have a laughing disorder..

Inside the mermaid thing (I forgot what it was called)..

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And that sums up Tokyo 2008.